Packed with incendiary (and sometimes explosive) material, it was aimed at its target ship by volunteers who bailed out into a boat at the last moment. It often missed, but the panic it invariably caused among crews, who generally could not swim and had no method of safely abandoning their highly inflammable wooden ship did the job for it - the most famous example being the attack off Gravelines in 1588, which led to the rout of the Spanish Armada.
Author: Kirsch, Peter
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Date Published: 2022
Edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Condition: New
Isbn13: 9781848320253